Perspective Warp in Adobe Photoshop CC

Today new versions of Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop were released, and there are some amazing new features added for Creative Cloud members. I’d like to take this opportunity to show off a really cool new feature in Adobe Photoshop CC… Perspective Warp! Perpsective warp was sneaked at Adobe MAX last year – it’s a new way to manipulate your images by changing their three dimensional perspective. You can manipulate parts of the image to give the appearance that the camera perspective changes, all without having to create a complex 3D model! This filter can be used for changing entire images, and is especially useful when aligning perspectives while compositing content from multiple images.

Here’s a quick video I put together showing how you can use it within your own Photoshop creations.

All that you have to do is select the layer that you want to manipulate, then select the Edit -> Perspective Warp menu option. Using Perspective Warp is a two-step process.

First you start in “Layout” mode. Create planes within your images to match areas or geometries of content within your image. This might be the sides of a building, or other areas that you don’t want deformed.

Next, Switch “Warp” mode. In warp mode you can drag the pins/vertices to warp the content within the image. You can also hold shift and click on a line to lock that line to a horizontal or vertical position.

Drag the perspective warping where you want it, and then commit the changes by clicking on the “Commit” check button.

Perspective Warp Toolbar

Now, let’s look at two scenarios where I’ve used perspective warp (see the video for step by step details).

The first example shows how you can change the perspective/focal area of the image. In this case I applied perspective warp to the entire image. I created planes to match the Adobe building in the center of the image, and then used Perspective Warp to shift the building focal area to the left.

In the second example I composited a truck onto a street. In the original images, the truck’s perspective is close, but does not match the perspective of the street. Using Perspective Warp, you can easily re-shape content to match perspectives within your composition.

Hi Andrew – I’m glad I happened upon this post. My art is 3 dimensional. It’s made of thousands of colored paper discs. Light source plays a major role when documenting the work. Light source must come from the right. Problem is the image becomes trapezoidal. I need to convert the photographic documentation of the artwork to square. Obviously later I would crop out the background. Here is an example. Can you let me know if Perspective Warp would accomplish this? I’ve used Transform and Puppet Warp in the past and they are just too liquid and a novice’s nightmare to use for this purpose. https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4967l0u5yynky4/miguelwarp2.png

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How to make this new feature available to CC version only? Do I need to install a new version or we can just upgrade it